Video Project (filed under photo projects)
So on the train last night I came up with a fun idea. When I don't have a book to read my mind wanders somethin' feirce and this little ditty popped right in.
I want to compress video/time lapse an entire trip by car across the US (preferably US-50) into one hour...or the length of some apropriate album. It's a simple enough concept to lay down to anyone. But when you actually think about doing it all of a sudden it's huge!
I estimate it would take about three whole days to travel across without stopping, about 72 hours. I would need some companions. You video people can venture a guess at how long it'd take to compress 72 HOURS of video into about 70 minutes. With my current equipment I'd need a large number of DV tapes, or record over footage while capturing on the road. As well as over a terabyte of memory space. 1 hour of footage is about 15GB x 72 = 1080GB.
Another option is to use a time lapse method. I would prefer to use a dSLR for this being that I'm most familiar, and if I bought it I'd use it for other stuff. The D200 I know can be programed and perform such a task, but I'm wondering if any later Nikons can, like a D700? Must to research. Equipment for saving direct to computer and AC adaptor for the camera are necessary.
I estimate one photograph per second would work nicely to really capture everything I/we pass in good clarity. That comes to 259,200 shots in 72 hours, or 144 minutes of video @ 30fps (from there that can be compressed to nearly any fragment of time). Now 259,200 photographs adds up, so a compromise must be reached between quality (at least 1080 HD) and storage capacity. We'll stick to compressed .jpg and go with about 2Mb per image, which would require about 544GB of storage space.
Adding up the time and materials:
6-7 days + editing
dSLR: $3,000 + AC adaptor and direct to computer cable/software
1 terabyte external harddrive: $200
good mini tripod: $?
6200 miles of gas: varies but estimated $600
Who's in?
_Charles
I want to compress video/time lapse an entire trip by car across the US (preferably US-50) into one hour...or the length of some apropriate album. It's a simple enough concept to lay down to anyone. But when you actually think about doing it all of a sudden it's huge!
I estimate it would take about three whole days to travel across without stopping, about 72 hours. I would need some companions. You video people can venture a guess at how long it'd take to compress 72 HOURS of video into about 70 minutes. With my current equipment I'd need a large number of DV tapes, or record over footage while capturing on the road. As well as over a terabyte of memory space. 1 hour of footage is about 15GB x 72 = 1080GB.
Another option is to use a time lapse method. I would prefer to use a dSLR for this being that I'm most familiar, and if I bought it I'd use it for other stuff. The D200 I know can be programed and perform such a task, but I'm wondering if any later Nikons can, like a D700? Must to research. Equipment for saving direct to computer and AC adaptor for the camera are necessary.
I estimate one photograph per second would work nicely to really capture everything I/we pass in good clarity. That comes to 259,200 shots in 72 hours, or 144 minutes of video @ 30fps (from there that can be compressed to nearly any fragment of time). Now 259,200 photographs adds up, so a compromise must be reached between quality (at least 1080 HD) and storage capacity. We'll stick to compressed .jpg and go with about 2Mb per image, which would require about 544GB of storage space.
Adding up the time and materials:
6-7 days + editing
dSLR: $3,000 + AC adaptor and direct to computer cable/software
1 terabyte external harddrive: $200
good mini tripod: $?
6200 miles of gas: varies but estimated $600
Who's in?
_Charles